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21 Dec 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (DTN) -- The changes coming to the U.S. Congress represent a new opportunity for the fertilizer industry to educate freshman lawmakers that the fertilizer industry is important and helps to feed the world, according to a fertilizer industry official. With Democrats winning control of the U.S. House...
20 Dec 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and wholesale drug distributors contributed to the worsening opioid addiction epidemic in West Virginia, a new Congressional report on an 18-month investigation concluded, by not closely monitoring the flow of opioid painkillers into rural areas of the state. I...
20 Dec 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Prices for three nitrogen fertilizers spiked higher in the second week of December 2018, breaking out of a trend of moderate price increases, according to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN. Seven of the eight major fertilizers DTN tracks are higher than last month. UAN28 is 7% higher compared to...
20 Dec 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The signs were alarming. The once physically fit employee in his 30s, who was usually prompt and hardworking, began showing up late to work back in 2014 at Midwest Poultry Services (MPS) in Mentone, Indiana. "He came to us and said he's got an (opioid) addiction," said Dan Krouse, the company's genera...
19 Dec 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Food companies, retailers and some major livestock groups have come together to draft a new framework to improve management of antibiotic use in the livestock industry. Food companies and retailers such as Walmart, Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods, McDonald's, Hormel Foods and Jennie-O-Turkey joined ...